Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    Did you gets kinks in a metal slinky 'cos i'm pretty sure you only got kinks in a plastic one?

    If you had a metal slinky, you were right posh, if you had a plastic one, you were as poor as a church mouse. I didn't have either - my friends from school used to visit me with their Salvation Army parents at my cardboard box under the flyover with hot soup and...

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  • tim_wand
    tim_wand Posts: 2,552
    pinarello001 wrote:
    Did you gets kinks in a metal slinky 'cos i'm pretty sure you only got kinks in a plastic one?

    If you had a metal slinky, you were right posh, if you had a plastic one, you were as poor as a church mouse. I didn't have either - my friends from school used to visit me with their Salvation Army parents at my cardboard box under the flyover with hot soup and...

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    You had a two storey cardboard box? posh feck!! Ours was flat pack no stairs, no need for a slinky.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    That cardboard box was after the shoe box in middle o' road -all 27 of us. We used to get up so early we got up before we went to bed...you've no idea how good you've got it.
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  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    pinarello001 wrote:
    That cardboard box was after the shoe box in middle o' road -all 27 of us. We used to get up so early we got up before we went to bed...you've no idea how good you've got it.

    Luxury!
  • tim_wand
    tim_wand Posts: 2,552
    Tell kids that now a days and they wont believe you!!
  • FishFish
    FishFish Posts: 2,152
    Capt Slog wrote:
    phone leads, or any other type of spiral leads that have those kinks in them, like this....

    AS7UI.jpg

    aarrgggghhh!

    I used to be the production manager of the cable that made these 'twas in Helsby in the north of England. Some fit girls there.
    ...take your pickelf on your holibobs.... :D

    jeez :roll:
  • Gazzetta67
    Gazzetta67 Posts: 1,890
    Smooth Radio anyone ??? - Kate Garraway is a DJ now ? thats after she finishes her stint on tv :roll:

    And they seem to only have 3 CD's all they play are repeat after repeat songs.
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Veronese68 wrote:
    DJs talking over the end of a song. Chris Evans played White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane, the end of the song builds into a crescendo, the ginger fool then talks over the finale to say what an epic song it is. I know! Fook off so I can hear it then.
    This + 1000000. The reason I cannot listen to Steve Wright. Twunt.
    Ecrasez l’infame
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    Steve Wright in the afternoon is like the Daily Mail on the Radio. He even sings towards the end of the song. I actually think his mimicking of the artist is very condescending. I switch to R2 at 3pm for the Golden Oldies and switch over/off at 3.25.
    'Factoids' (Haemorrhoids?), 'The Old Woman (How f*cking rude?), the silly canned clapping and cheering. I want a part refund on my TV licence that pays for this shyte.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • andy9964
    andy9964 Posts: 930
    People who say "I know", after you've just spent five minutes explaining something to them.
  • qube
    qube Posts: 1,899
    I'm sure Steve Wright will someday be added to the same list as Rolf Harris et al.... always seemed the dodgy type to me.

    I think it's the glasses..... and he's a dick.

    Also hasn't R2 turned into R1 a wee bit?

    Chris Evans giving it large in the morning... tone it down a bit eh!!
  • Ber Nard
    Ber Nard Posts: 827
    pinarello001 wrote:
    Steve Wright in the afternoon is like the Daily Mail on the Radio.

    Surely the DM is the Jeremy Vine show?
  • oblongomaculatus
    oblongomaculatus Posts: 616
    DJs talking over the end of records is nothing new and is the reason I stopped listening to music on the radio a long time ago. I assumed they used to do it to stop people taping records, but no-one does that any more so I'm surprised to hear Chris Evans, Steve Wright etc are still ruining songs.
  • jawooga
    jawooga Posts: 530
    "Here's your meal. Please help yourself to cutlery on the other side of the pub, ya know near where I've just come from. Sauces, salt and pepper should be over there too".

    Now, I can understand not having condiments on tables, and also not wanting to bring them all out for every pub meal. But I can't understand not bringing cutlery out.
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    edited October 2014
    jawooga wrote:
    "Here's your meal. Please help yourself to cutlery on the other side of the pub, ya know near where I've just come from. Sauces, salt and pepper should be over there too".

    Now, I can understand not having condiments on tables, and also not wanting to bring them all out for every pub meal. But I can't understand not bringing cutlery out.
    You need to stop eating in Wetherspoons :lol:
    All part of the dining "experience" or " journey"
    And while we are on the topic...I used to work in a pub (as did many others on here, I suspect). Kids delivering your food with the throwaway comment above then walk past a table left by previous customers covered with glasses, plates etc. Lazy f**kers. My old boss would never have let such an inefficient sortie from behind the bar happen.
    Ecrasez l’infame
  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    Yes, the most sure fire way of not getting a tip.

    "Here's your piping hot plate of food, I will just go and get your cutlery"

    /2 minutes pass.

    FFS, it's not hard, get the cutlery out first!
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,814
    Ugg boots and the ilk, it's that time of year and they are back. Awful things , look so slovenly as people drag their heels around in them. Vile things.
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  • byke68
    byke68 Posts: 1,070
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Ugg boots and the ilk, it's that time of year and they are back. Awful things , look so slovenly as people drag their heels around in them. Vile things.

    Same! Women wearing them when it's warm yuk!
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Raisins. Why do people spoil so many decent foods by putting raisins in? It's not that I have anything against raisins at all, I like eating them, but every recipe with raisins in would be better without them. That is all.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,814
    I didn't put a URL in my post about slovenly boots above, but there is one. I certainly don't want to increase their sales, quite the reverse. Why does it show as a link and connect to a site selling the shite? If I go to edit my post there is no URL, I'd make it link to some decent footwear. That irritates me.
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  • k-dog
    k-dog Posts: 1,652
    Should we add inline links to this thread then?
    I'm left handed, if that matters.
  • jawooga
    jawooga Posts: 530
    jawooga wrote:
    "Here's your meal. Please help yourself to cutlery on the other side of the pub, ya know near where I've just come from. Sauces, salt and pepper should be over there too".
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    You need to stop eating in Wetherspoons :lol:

    At the risk of owning up to more low-brow food habits, it irritates me when I'm in a queue in Subway. They provide enough staff to take orders at peak demand, but usually only have one cash registers. So there is a backlog where you're standing at the back of the queue with staff shouting at you from distance for your order, and you're expected to shout back. Your sandwich gets finished and sits in a baguette queue going cold while the cashier processes payments.

    Also, Wagamamas! "Your food might not come out at, like, exactly the same time!? Okay?" Well, okay this isn't a huge problem, but there's only two of us on this order, and I'm sure other establishments have to deal with cooking the food fresh. They could certainly try!
  • k-dog
    k-dog Posts: 1,652
    Yeah, I'm pretty sure Wagamama (which I really like) does that as a gimmick. Can it be beyond the wit of man to know how long something takes so stagger the start?
    I'm left handed, if that matters.
  • jawooga
    jawooga Posts: 530
    Trying the wine when it's brought out to a restaurant table when it's a screw cap. There's no chance of it being corked. Could I legitimately say "hmm, maybe I'd prefer the house red seeing as I'm having steak".
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    It could be corked if the seal had failed in transport?
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    jawooga wrote:
    Trying the wine when it's brought out to a restaurant table when it's a screw cap. There's no chance of it being corked. Could I legitimately say "hmm, maybe I'd prefer the house red seeing as I'm having steak".

    Not being given the same consideration when the waiter brings my bottle of Newky Brown.
  • FatTed
    FatTed Posts: 1,205
    jawooga wrote:
    Trying the wine when it's brought out to a restaurant table when it's a screw cap. There's no chance of it being corked. Could I legitimately say "hmm, maybe I'd prefer the house red seeing as I'm having steak".

    It won't be corked (no cork) but it can still be off if there is a leak in the seal, or the bottle has been stored/transported in too hot a climate. A problem with Malaysian Airlines and some hotels in the South Pacific and Asia
  • FishFish
    FishFish Posts: 2,152
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Ugg boots and the ilk, it's that time of year and they are back. Awful things , look so slovenly as people drag their heels around in them. Vile things.

    I believe that the genesis of these boots was that welsh people could put the back legs of sheep in them whilst copulating with them.
    ...take your pickelf on your holibobs.... :D

    jeez :roll:
  • FishFish
    FishFish Posts: 2,152
    I hate it when on a forum you are (well I am) referred to as @FishFish. The preposition '@' suggests that the the author is a tw@.
    ...take your pickelf on your holibobs.... :D

    jeez :roll:
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    FishFish wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Ugg boots and the ilk, it's that time of year and they are back. Awful things , look so slovenly as people drag their heels around in them. Vile things.

    I believe that the genesis of these boots was that welsh people could put the back legs of sheep in them whilst copulating with them.

    That's bollox - we already have Wellington boots for that. Tried and tested by sheep shaggers the world over.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!

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